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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Sufism

Musician Shye Ben-Tzur debuts his newest album, 'Hallel,' at Jerusalem's Confederation House on July 13, 2023 (YouTube screen grab)
July 7, 2023, 2:04 am
India-inspired musician praises the divine with ‘Hallel’
Shye Ben-Tzur, who has collaborated with Radiohead’s Johnny Greenwood, brings his new album to Jerusalem
By Jessica Steinberg
Iranian-born wind musician Amir Shahar, middle, in rehearsal ahead of the Oud Festival, November 3-12, 2022 at Jerusalem's Confederation House (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
November 6, 2022, 6:56 pm
Sounds of Sufism combine with Persian music in Oud Festival
Sitar, ney, daf and santur are some of the instruments recruited to tell the story of a 13th-century mystic’s voyage, highlight of an annual event celebrating Middle Eastern music
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: A 2008 photo of Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, where a number of foreigners and dual nationals have been detained over the years. (CC BY-SA 2.0 Ehsan Iran/Wikipedia)
February 22, 2021, 7:39 am
Activists fear jailed Iran protester died when deliberately denied medical care
Prison group says Behnam Mahjoubi, held since 2018 protests by Sufi sect, was ‘poisoned’ by drugs; rights groups say he suffered from a panic disorder and allege he was tortured
By AFP
Screen capture from video of Iran's Sufi leader Nourali Tabandeh. (YouTube)
December 24, 2019, 3:07 pm
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Sufi mystics dies at 92
Nourali Tabandeh had not been seen publicly since 2018 following execution of a member of Sufi order for deadly attack on police; was recently hospitalized with severe illness
By AP
Iraqi Sufi Muslim Kurds take part in a ritual ceremony to commemorate the birth of the Prophet Mohammed in the Kurdish town of Akra, 500 km north of Baghdad, on November 19, 2018. (SAFIN HAMED / AFP)
November 20, 2018, 9:17 pm
With sufi rituals and sweets, Muslims mark prophet Mohammed’s birthday
From Iraqi Kurdistan to Libya, Sunnis mark the anniversary with ancestral customs and new traditions
By AFP
Illustrative image of dervishes, followers of Sufism a mystical form of Islam that preaches tolerance and a search for understanding, pray during a ceremony marking Nowruz day in the Tekke's prayer room in the southern Kosovo town of Prizren on March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
March 31, 2018, 2:18 am
8 Iranian Sufis on hunger strike, claim torture — Amnesty
Human rights group says prisoners require medical care for injuries sustained during their arrests in violent clashes with security forces last month
By AFP
A screenshot of a video from Twitter reporting to show clashes between Sufi protesters and police in Tehran on February 19, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)
February 20, 2018, 1:20 pm
300 arrested after Sufis clash with Iran police, killing 5
Tehran protesters fear detention of 90-year-old pro-liberal Sufi leader Nourali Tabandeh
By Nasser Karimi
A screenshot of a video from Twitter reporting to show clashes between Sufi protesters and police in Tehran on February 19, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)
February 19, 2018, 10:22 pm
Three policemen reported killed in Tehran during Sufi protests
State media says officers arrest, disperse dervishes demonstrating in capital over detainment of sect’s members
By AFP
Mohamed Abdel Fattah, the imam of al-Rawda mosque, which was attacked by terrorists near the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, receives treatment at al-Husseiniya hospital in Egypt's northern province of al-Sharqiya on November 25, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)
November 27, 2017, 12:21 am
Egypt imam vows to return to massacre mosque to finish his sermon
Mohammed Abdel Fattah was trampled on the floor, and pinned below dead bodies, as 305 worshipers were murdered in Sinai terror attack
By Bassem Aboualabass
View of the Rawda mosque, roughly 40 kilometers west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish, after a gun and bombing attack, on November 24, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)
November 25, 2017, 7:44 pm
Mosque attack is a testament to Egypt’s impotence in Sinai
For now Cairo may be able to afford to let insurgents and local tribes battle it out, but eventually the terrorists will hit closer to home
By Avi Issacharoff
Relatives of the victims of the bomb and gun assault on the North Sinai Rawda mosque wait outside the Suez Canal University hospital in the eastern port city of Ismailia on November 25, 2017, where they were taken to receive treatment following the deadly attack the day before. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)
November 25, 2017, 12:44 pm
Egypt mourns 305 victims of Sinai mosque massacre
Nationwide prayers planned during 3-day mourning period; president vows to ‘respond with brutal force’ to country’s deadliest terror attack
By Samer al-Atrush
The Rawda mosque, roughly 40 kilometers west of el-Arish in Egypt's Sinai, after a gun and bombing terror attack, on November 24, 2017. (AFP/Stringer)
November 24, 2017, 10:14 pm
Who are the Sufis associated with the mosque attacked in Egypt?
They are considered heretics by Salafists, but in much of the Muslim world Sufism is accepted and practiced by mainstream Muslims
By Samer al-Atrush
People identify bodies at a mortuary in Karachi on November 12, 2016, following a bombing at a Sufi shrine. (AFP PHOTO / RIZWAN TABASSUM)
November 12, 2016, 11:16 pm
IS-claimed bombing kills at least 52 at Pakistan shrine: officials
More than 100 injured in blast in the southwestern district at site revered by minority Shiites and Sunni Muslims
By Maaz Khan
Illustrative: Pakistani rescuers shift an injured man to a hospital following an attack by gunmen in the Bacha Khan university in Charsadda, about 50 kilometers from Peshawar, on January 20, 2016. (AFP Photo/Hasham Ahmed)
November 12, 2016, 6:40 pm
Bomb blast at Sufi shrine in Pakistan kills 25
Officials say at least 35 others injured by explosion targeting worshipers in the southwestern Khuzdar district
By AFP
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